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What film WOULD you LOVE to see a remake/reboot of?

Conan is in development as a Nu-Image/Millennium/Lionsgate co-production. With Brett Ratner having exited the project, they've reportedly narrowed their list of directors to James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday), Christopher Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Silent Hill), and Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder, Friday the 13th). I'm hoping for McTeigue or Marshall.

McTiegue's probably going to direct Magneto, AFAIK, which would mean he wouldn't be available
 
They could make a live-action Star Vengers (aka Getter Robo) with Tom Cruise as Homer Winthrow, Hugh Jackman as Paladin Spencer and John C. Reilly as Foul Tip. :)
 
The LOGAN'S RUN remake has been stuck in development hell for years now. I'm sure it will get made eventually, though. Probably starring a bunch of hot young stars from the CW . . . .
 
Logan's Run

Fantastic Voyage

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Unholy Three

Arsenic and Old Lace with? Meryl Streep or the lady from The Queen(name escapes me)?


That would be Helen Mirren. Not a bad idea. Or maybe Judy Densch?

Maybe Jim Carrey as Mortimer. And John Malkovich or Jeremy Irons as Jonathan? (Or are they getting too old for the part?)
 
Mirren-thank you. Yeah, too old. Need someone with a unique presence onscreen about 30-35, I think. Kind of a young Kevin Spacey/Malkovich type.
 
Mirren-thank you. Yeah, too old. Need someone with a unique presence onscreen about 30-35, I think. Kind of a young Kevin Spacey/Malkovich type.

Who does old-school menacing these days? And would they have to update the "Boris Karloff" jokes for modern audiences?
 
Mirren-thank you. Yeah, too old. Need someone with a unique presence onscreen about 30-35, I think. Kind of a young Kevin Spacey/Malkovich type.

Who does old-school menacing these days? And would they have to update the "Boris Karloff" jokes for modern audiences?

Viggo Mortensen? And maybe change it to Robert Englund?

You'd probably want to use the name of a character instead. There really aren't any modern-day horror stars with the same sort of name-recognition value.

"He said I looked like . . . Freddy Krueger!"

And maybe Gary Oldman as Jonathan?
 
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - a film series that started over and captured the greatness of the comics would be awesome.

Seconded. So much so, I walked out of the theater hoping for a better remake one day. Movies are movies, and comics are comics, but tonally, visually and character-wise it wouldn't have hurt to be much closer to the book.

I would also throw a good remake of Lost In Space onto the list.
 
Masters of the Universe...keep Frank Langella as Skeletor since he stole the show with his performance as the Dark Lord of Eternia but do a proper adaption, one can be done without including too many cartoony moments. I'm really curious to see how the upcoming adaption is going to be.

Daredevil...the original was decent, not as bad as I thought it would be but I'd like to see another movie, you could keep Affleck as Matt Murdock/Daredevil though.

Superman...I'm a big Superman Returns fan and I'd rather not have this thread turn into a Returns bashing feast like what usually happens when people mention the name Superman and movie, I'm just saying I'd like another reboot. J.J's was interesting but way too out there in terms of drastically changing the concepts of the mythology.

X3: The Last Stand...an awfull movie that I can scarely watch again even though I was tempted several times before Wolverine came out. As with the majority of the film franchises fans I would have loved to seen Bryan Singer and his writers would have concluded their trilogy. I know that bits and pieces have been discussed in interviews...and that the trio were suppossed to a year arc on Ultimate X-Men using a reworked story from their X3 ideas but still.

Spider-Man 3: I don't mind that Venom is still in it...since let's face it people, we wanted to see Venom in this movie, we just didn't want him to be butchered and disgraced like he was and minimized to the extent. I would have had Peter face Harry as the Hobgoblin and then in the second half Venom...in fact now that I think about it I would have split the movies into two. Spider-Man 4 would have been about Peter facing Venom while dealing with the loss of Harry...

Spider-Man: I still love this movie...but I would have used Gwen Stacey as played by Reese Witherspoon (Yeah I know some people would've disputed this casting choice but I like her and think she can act) and have Gwen killed at the end by Norman as he tosses her of the George Washington Bridge.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: I've read online and heard from people here that Alan Moore wrote a treatment for the film that was meant to be different from his graphic novels but I would have done a proper adaption.
 
Blake's 7
Starlost
Voyagers
Darkstar
Genesis 2
Andromeda
Herculoids
H.R. Puffinstuff
Bugaloos
Liddsville
 
King Kong (2003): See above

Godzilla (1998): See above

Star Trek: Because JJ Abrams should be drawn and quartered and his limbs tossed over the cliff Emo Kirk drove the car off of.
So, you don't like JJ TREK, but you do like King Kong & PREGO GODZILLA?

How the hell can anyone like Zilla? Seriously? They took the God out of him.

There needs to be a good high-budget remake of Godzilla, one that treats the big green guy like the force of nature that he is, rather than like an overgrown lizard. He's a semi-anthropomorphic personification of mother nature's rage, not a god damned animal.


Very few films need to be remade. The good ones will continue to stand on their own.

A Big-Budget reboot of Masters of the Universe would be nice, but I'm afraid that we don't have any modern action stars who can rival Dolph Lundgren.

miraclefan: Jackson's King Kong took the original story and gave it depth, including making all the characters, including Kong, more three-dimensional. I've given up trying to figure out why other people find that a problem. I loved the original movie, but not so much I can't see the new one's good points. I can't say the same for others, including you I guess, but like I said, I don't care what you think.

As for Godzilla (and it's GODZILLA. The writer of Final Wars can go screw.), I'm getting kind of sick of people ting on plot lines that, by comparison to the original series, actually make some kind of perverted sense. You don't like "Prego" Godzilla? Fine, then riddle me this: In the original series, there is no female Godzilla, so where the f**k did Minya come from? At least "Zilla's" children have an origin story!

As for JJ trek, I've never found anything JJ Abrams had a hand in remotely entertaining. I haven't seen the new movie myself, but from what I've been hearing, I feel pretty justified in going with the percentages.

hyzmarca: No, he's a guy in a rubber suit, fighting other guys in rubber suits. Guys in rubber suits acting like giant animals. The word kaiju means "giant monster" not "wrathful force of mother nature". American Godzilla is three hundred feet tall, scaly and breathes fire. He's a fine addition to the concept.

Mistral: Why are you attributing hyzmarca's words to me?
 
I always thought Godzilla was A-sexual, that's how there were children.

And besides, the Godzilla movie completely and utterly sucked ass. I was nine when I watched it for the first time, and from nine years old I've wanted to write movies in dispise of Godzilla.
 
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